South African Wines reached milestone - 10 local wines achieve perfect score
FMCG SUPPLIER NEWS
Aug 15th 2011, 08:52
August 11, saw SAWi celebrating the achievements of South Africa’s top wines with laureates and guests welcomed at Longridge Wine Estate in Stellenbosch. This was indeed an historic occasion, considering the results which is setting a new quality benchmark for South African wines with no less than 10 wines achieving a perfect 100 points.
This included Rijks Pinotage, Kanonkop Pinotage, Saronsberg Shiraz, Eagle’s Nest Shiraz, Saronsberg Full Circle Shiraz Mourvedré Viognier, De Krans Cape Tawny Port, Bouchard Finlayson Galpin Peak Pinot Noir, Kanonkop Paul Sauer Cabernet Sauvignon Cabernet Franc Merlot, Klein Constantia Vin de Constance and Mulderbosch Barrel Fermented Chardonnay
While Rijks Private Cellar took the Trophy for the best Red Wine and Mulderbosch the White Wine Trophy, Bouchard Finlayson was for the second year in a row awarded the Trophy for Winery of the year. Other wineries that took honours in the Top 10 awards were Cederberg, Uva Mira, Oak Valley, Kanonkop, Cape Point Vineyards, Saronsberg, Rijks Private Cellar, Paul Cluver and Lomond.
The SAWi Legends Award for personalities still actively involved in wine making went to Hempies du Toit of Annandale.
The Index is a multi vintage wine rating, deducted from the combined preferences of a diverse group of wine judges from various wine competitions (according to ascribed weights), providing a condensed result point. Other considerations include quality consistency while a nominal point is added for additional accolades like a trophy winner. Judging takes place further according to wine maturation categories.
The SAWi Awards is proof that South Africa can take on the best the World can offer when it comes to producing great wines. Winemakers should continue to focus on finesse and elegance, our unique terroir and honesty to show up in their wines. Only in that way can SA wineries continue to offer the consumer such high caliber wines.
In line with developments in social media, SAWi has become much more than just a mere application but, a platform with new opportunities for building apps, communities, ecosystems and even meta-platforms for the SA wine industry. As a result, several ground breaking digital product offerings has been rolled out by SAWi, making it the leading role player in this regard.
With information moving around more than ever and getting onto our tables, we can now have information at our fingertips, anywhere we are. The way we communicate, connect, work, and live are being influenced for good, in the process affecting the choices we as consumers get to make in buying wine.
Through positioning itself as “a wine partner in new media”, SAWi wants to provide simple but much more sensible content about wine, to engage and make people wine wise. With these steps taken by SAWi, a new era has certainly begun for the SA Wine Sector with wine cellars which will find it in their favour to become part of this wine platform.
For more information visit and register at: www.sawineindex.com or contact Izak Smit at 082 577 7037 or info@sawineindex.com.
ADDITIONAL NOTES
The SAWi platform already provides multiple digital touch point offerings with knowledge based user content to make it a real quick and easy usable “wine companion” in every applicable sense of the word. New product offers include both web and mobi wine estate product portfolio applications as digital winery management and marketing solutions, a unique SAWi touch screen wine list, digital food and wine pairing menus, a comprehensive mobile phone application and an integrated producer application covering all mobile media, in most instances a first for SA.
Through these developments SAWi aims to create the essential one stop wine-ecosystem, revolutionize the extraordinary world of wine and accentuate the nobility and fullness of life with wine. We no longer need to fall back and only buy the wines we know or having to consider bottle stickers, price and discount enticers. We can now all get out of our comfort zones and become “wine wise”.
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